Ads on Android Phone

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Why is it on my laptop ads are a minimum and not intrusive whereas on my android phone I have ads popping up all over the place?

 

What can I do to minimise this on my phone? Is there a setting, extension or preferred browser? Right now I am using chrome on my phone but also use it on my laptop!

Maybe Chrome's settings are different on the two devices? At any rate, my Android uses DuckDuckGo as a browser (DDG has a browser & a search engine) and I get no ads whatsoever on this site. Apparently, DDG blocks trackers that are associated with ads. I have no ad blocker app on my phone.

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The browser has a feature called Duck Player which allows you to watch youtube videos without ads.

I call YouTube 'AdTube'. 

You get to see a bit of a video between Ads. 

Thank you, Moe. 

I'll let you know how it works. 

This is what I see, and of course the picture won’t load. I must be doing something wrong  



I see ads popping down from the top and up from the below. Also many ads within comments. 

Sometimes I'm reading a comment and think that's a weird thing to post and them realise I'm reading an Ad. 

I signed in to right the comment and now realise the Ads have gone. 

Most of the time I'm browsing and only sign in to interact when I need to. 

Thanks!

Now I feel like a numpty. Still going to download the browser Moe advised as it seems to help with other sites. 

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I stay signed in, but the odd occasion that I'm booted out, I still don,'t get ads, so ddg should work when you're not signed in too.